• Religion of Sports

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2022

  Religion Of Sports is a Santa Monica-based streaming media company that produces sports stories and unscripted content featuring famous athletes. The company was co-founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra and is led by CEO Ameeth Snkaran. Its core product is original, athlete-focused unscripted streaming content. In June 2022 the company raised $50M in a Series B funding round. Investors named in the report include Shamrock Capital, Elysian Park Ventures, Cerro Capital, Courtside Ventures, LinkinFirm, and Advancit Ventures. The article does not disclose operating metrics or stated future plans. Religion of Sports is an innovative sports media company that produces documentary series, podcasts and other programming centered on the theme of why sports matter. Co‑founded in 2016 by Gotham Chopra, Tom Brady and Michael Strahan and led by CEO Ameeth Sankaran, the company has produced hundreds of hours of content. Its programming has generated more than 250 million views and listens and includes Emmy Award‑winning titles such as Tom vs. Time, Greatness Code and Shut Up and Dribble. Religion of Sports benefits from distribution partnerships with Amazon, Apple+, ESPN, Facebook, Netflix, Showtime and others. The company plans to scale content efforts across multiple platforms, build brand awareness and empower storytellers using the new capital. Upcoming releases include a major podcast slate in late 2020, multiple video series with Amazon, ESPN, Facebook, Netflix and Showtime, and the 2021 ESPN documentary Man in the Arena about Tom Brady.

• Greenfly

  Participated · Equity · Aug 2021

  Greenfly provides a platform that streamlines short-form content workflows for sports, media, and brand organizations, enabling production, compilation, management, and sharing of short-form content across networks. The Greenfly Platform bridges leagues, teams, players, broadcasters, and sponsors to facilitate collaborative content creation and distribution. The company has expanded its global footprint, welcoming over 40 new partnerships worldwide in the past year and acquiring Miro AI to bolster contextual sports content analysis. Leadership emphasizes short-form video consumption on platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels as a primary engagement and monetization channel. Greenfly completed a $14 million equity funding round that exceeded its initial target. Management intends to use the capital to accelerate strategic partnerships and support continued growth after its fastest year in nearly a decade. Greenfly builds a content collaboration platform and digital media flow management system to source, create, curate and automate distribution of photos and short-form videos for social media. The product centers on event-based workflows that route, surface and curate media so athletes, teams, leagues and brands can find and share relevant content quickly. The company is investing in improved curation and data collection to surface media most relevant to users and provide insights for community relationship management. Greenfly plans to use new funding for growth and expansion, building additional collaboration tools and content as more players sign on. The platform is used across sports, media and entertainment, political campaigns, social causes and consumer brands and is now working with more than 30 sports leagues and over 500 organizations. The company reported over 100% growth so far in 2021. Greenfly provides a SaaS platform that integrates a mobile app with a private, web-based content production and orchestration system to enable brands to request, create, review, approve and post unified video and other media. The platform lets consumer brands collaborate with networks of endorsers, staff and customers to simultaneously share thematically unified content across individual social accounts and networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as well as television. Greenfly has been used by leading brands, sports leagues, teams and media companies. Co-founded in 2014 by Shawn Green and Daniel Kirschner, the company focuses on building tools to activate and orchestrate content creator networks. The new financing will be used to continue building out technology, drive user acquisition and marketing initiatives, and bolster the team with new hires. The company is based in Santa Monica, Calif. Greenfly provides sports leagues, teams, and media companies with a system that pairs a mobile app with a private, web-based content production and orchestration platform. The product lets organizations leverage networks of influencers, brand ambassadors, and staff to produce and distribute video and other media content. The company was founded in 2014 by Daniel Kirschner and Chairman Shawn Green and is based in Santa Monica, CA. Greenfly announced a Series A financing of more than $6m. The company intends to use the funds to continue to scale and to address new verticals and markets. No operating metrics beyond the fundraise are reported in the article.

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